Insane, unrealistic regulations are behind America’s loss of jobs to other countries. Regulators passed over beneficial compromises in favor of environmental absolutism. A fish known as the snail darter destroyed America’s breeder reactor. If it hadn’t been the snail darter they’d have found a butterfly or moth they’d claim would be destroyed by the project. On that score, Bill Bryson, author of “A short history of nearly everything,” said, of all the things that have ever lived, most, in fact, 99.99% are now dead.” (snip) “Paradoxically, extinction is the motor of biological advancement.” (He goes on to give lip service to it’s-only-good-if-man-is-not-involved.) But we are a part of the ecosystem and perhaps not everything can be kept alive. Last I read, the spotted owl, for which America’s timber industry was summarily sacrificed, is being destroyed by a different kind of owl. To prevent it the government is now hunting the other owl, possibly to extinction. Where do we stop?
Exactly right, plus the spotted owl fiasco basically shut down the timber industry in the NW and the whole program was an enviro sham.
Too many Regulations and high taxes on businesses are worse enemies of Americans than ISIS or Al Qaeda ever can be.
But the complacent masses will not recognize the real enemy until they fall down to the levels of East Germans before unification with West Germany.